I am still trying to process the elections. Normally if I say to someone I am porcessing something it is strictly an intellectual thing. But I have to admit that there is a good amount of emotional processing going on as well. The two are of course inextricably linked: the anger, frustrations, bewilderment I feel is due in large measure to my inability to understand how two people can look at the same series of events and come to a radically different conclusion. I get it when people disagree over a particular course of action, even though they agree the facts of the situation. But something different seems to have happened during this election. People didn't care at all about the facts, and they abandoned all pretense that moral considerations like character, virtue, justice, and principles matter when choosing a candidate. The hard truth is that more than 50% of the United States is comprised of people who are not who I thought they were. As Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian:

Our mistake was to think that racism and misogyny were not as bad as they are, whether it applied to who was willing to vote for a supremely qualified Black woman or who was willing to vote for an adjudicated rapist and convicted criminal who admires Hitler. Our mistake was to think we could row this boat across the acid lake before the acid dissolved it.